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What To Do When There’s Light

So we live in a residence hall at NYU, and I suppose there is a lot to say about THAT (but I’ll save that for a whole other blog post).  For now (as a placeholder I guess) I will say that yes, every night I am the oldest person falling asleep in the building.  The more »

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Going Too Far Together

So how do you get a hundred twelve and thirteen year-old girls to write together on a Friday afternoon at 1:30?  Well, you start by going to The Hewitt School, which already has in place a writing-based curriculum and a commitment to hosting writers of all kinds (thank you amazing Hewitt English teachers! and thank more »

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Groupies!

This new book I’m working on has got me thinking about groupies–their special tricks, how they used to look in the late 80s, their devotion, their role in rock and roll literature, and how they are a kind of expert stalker.  In some sense their over-the-top behavior is socially sanctioned, or at least expected.  I more »

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This Week in Images

Some images from this week and some animals who may or may not be stalking you: Two shirtless homeless men wrestling over change outside the Washington Square Park entrance.  The crowd’s confusion about whether or not it’s sport or fight. The first-year student who Malka and I see barefoot in the Starbucks of our residence more »

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The Sad-Sads: On Melancholia

It’s a nice day.  I’m writing from the middle of a week-long vacation in San Francisco/Berkeley/Oakland with Matt.  Malka is staying with my mom and step-dad.  It’s so great to visit with friends like Mari L’Esperance, Alex Baker, David Buuck, and Bill Webb.  I’m writing from David’s sun-drenched kitchen with his two dogs, Buster and more »

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Okay Insomnia, You Win

Is it insomnia when your daughter wakes you up at 2:30 am to pee and you can’t go back to sleep because you find yourself obsessing about pressing matters like: the very likely possibility that you will paint the walls of your new apartment in startlingly ugly colors because you are drawn to these colors more »

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What the Rock Gods are Teaching Me

I dedicate this post to my dad, one of the first rock gods. So I am starting to work on a book for adults.  I guess they’re called novels.  I keep calling it an “adult novel,” (so as to somehow distinguish it from my young adult work) which leads folks to believe that I am more »

Girls and Mothers

The semester is coming to a close–just 47 essays to read and grade, and then it’s over!  YAAAAAYYYY!  But what this really means is that I’m reading again, and I have a little more head space to actually think about what I’ve read.  Here’s a round-up and some very impressionistic thoughts about three books and more »

On the Teen Author Book Festival, Non-Gender Specific Covers, and Feminism

So I want to do a little round-up of my time as a participant in the NYC Teen Author Book Festival.  I was honored to have been included in the "New Voices" Panel and the Books of Wonder signing!  Thanks to David Levithan for his amazing organizational skills, planning, and vision.  I didn't get to more »

Graffiti Nostalgia

First of all, I think I should start out by saying that I had big dreams for this particular post.  During my first trip to New York City, when I was 18, I stayed with a guy who was living near Thompkins Square Park, I went to a Butthole Surfers concert, and I walked around more »